wrong way

I get that supporting a longtime incumbent like Senator Thad Cochran rubs some people the wrong way.

Oddly, an ad that threatens other people to stop drinking milk lest their kid end up like my kid just sorta rubs me the wrong way.

Clearly, the masturbation disparity rubs some women the wrong way.

But when he tried to snort the cocaine off a business card, he blew the wrong way and knocked the powder off the card.

All because of a little hip-hop, which rubbed the wrong guy the wrong way.

In 1824 M. du Coudrai was poverty-stricken; he had lost his place on account of voting the wrong way.

Then he helped Tommy to dress by buttoning all his clothes the wrong way, and hiding his stockings and necktie.

There is also no other agent, equally important, which is more likely to be used in a wrong way and to lead to error.

If those two ever tried to harm Clevi, they would soon get their faces scratched; Apollonie has brought Loneli up the wrong way.

The author had the trick of rubbing his subject the wrong way.